On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 08:04:24PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > I'm announcing the release of the 5.1.2 kernel. > > All users of the 5.1 kernel series must upgrade. Well, kind of, let me rephrase that... > > All users of Intel processors made since 2011 must upgrade. > > Note, this release, and the other stable releases that are all being > released right now at the same time, just went out all contain patches > that have only seen the "public eye" for about 5 minutes. So be > forwarned, they might break things, they might not build, but hopefully > they fix things. Odds are we will be fixing a number of small things in > this area for the next few weeks as things shake out on real hardware > and workloads. So don't think you are done updating your kernel, you > never are done with that :) > > As for what specifically these changes fix, I'll let the tech news sites > fill you in on the details. Or go read the excellently written Xen > Security Advisory 297: > https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-297.html > That should give you a good idea of what a number of people have been > dealing with for many many many months now. Also see the new in-kernel documentation for how to handle all of this: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.html
